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July 30, 2008 8:59 AM PT

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Coming to a state fair midway booth near you -- ‘Hit the milk bottles -- win an Obama Llama!’

-- Scott Martelle

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Scott Martelle

Scott Martelle is a former Times staff writer and member of the editorial board. He also is the author of several nonfiction books on such disparate subjects as the Ludlow Massacre and 1913-14 Colorado coalfield war, the history of Detroit, and William Walker, the pre-Civil War American adventurer who for a brief time made himself president of Nicaragua.